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		<title>There is state-sanctioned abuse taking place in the UK. Yet nothing is done to stop it</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (25th May, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Private greed corroding our care system</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (29th July, 2024) Annette and Kevin Maxwell will never know the extent of the abuse suffered by their son Jonah at his residential [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (31st May, 2021) Dannielle Attree has spent half of her life being subjected to state-sanctioned abuse. She is only 24 years old but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (4th June, 2019) The response could not have been clearer when Woody Johnson, US ambassador to Britain, suggested that American firms would want access [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;It was pure torture&#8217;: autistic boy locked up, had head flushed down a toilet and punched so hard his jaw was broken in state care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th April, 2019) When Ben Garrod turned 18, he was preparing to move from a specialist residential school into his own flat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (22nd October, 2018) Stephanie Bincliffe left school at 16 and lived for two years on her own with help of a full-time carer. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bedlam is still with us in Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (26th September, 2018) My daughter Iona had a seizure at 5am yesterday. Her eyes rolled, she screamed, her limbs flailed and her body [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So many deaths by indifference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 17:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (7th May, 2018) On Friday morning, as the nation woke up to local election results, a report was slipped out by the National [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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